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Letter: Change riding rules so cyclists face traffic?
Original post made on Jul 10, 2007
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a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on Jul 10, 2007 at 12:31 pm
First off, if you believe that Mr. Smith made a U-Turn at the top of Sandhill Rd. you probably believe that mosquitos spread AIDS. It seems that the County Sherrif's Department made up the cause of Mr. Smith's death. It has been that department's M.O. for years to find any way it can to blame the cyclist and let the driver off the hook. Mr. Smith was hit while riding in the shoulder area that was marked by a solid white line. The bicycle skid marks showed that Mr. Smith was hit and shoved violently forward within the shoulder area.
Secondly, if you think bicycle riding on the left side of a road is wise, I suggest you try it on Westridge from Alpine over the hill to Portola Rd. and back. My guess is that if an auto was traveling down Westridge to Alpine, you wouldn't live past the first left curve.
D.O.A. for Ron Wilson. There's a reason that the DMV rule is that in the USA, we all (drivers and cyclists) stay to the right.
You may think you have a better idea but, I'd say it is counter intuitive, silly and dangerous. When the Almanac prints wacky thoughts like yours, a disclaimer stating the danger and illegality of your suggestion should be added by the editor. I hope No One takes you seriously.
a resident of Menlo Park: South of Seminary/Vintage Oaks
on Jul 11, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Judging by Mr. Wilson's letter and his prior statements about the wisdom of cyclists' riding against traffic, I believe that he is sincerely concerned about this issue and believes in this position. I happen to strongly disagree with his position.
It also appears that Brielle is sincerely concerned about cyclist safety. But why anyone has to deride someone else for his ideas ("wacky thoughts like yours") is beyond me. Do you think, Brielle, that others can't analyze and come to reasonable conclusions about unconventional ideas? Do you really think the Almanac must assume the "Father Knows Best" role and protect those who read these posts from **dangerous** ideas? Do you think we are simpletons? Please, Brielle, show some respect for the intelligence of others. Don't insult us.
By the way, Brielle, did you go out and inspect the accident site? If you or anyone else has evidence that the sheriff's department is fabricating the story of what really happened on that tragic day, please state the evidence. These accusations with no supporting evidence don't do anyone any good. My mind's not made up. Tell us what you know.
a resident of Menlo Park: University Heights
on Jul 12, 2007 at 1:11 am
The California Highway Patrol, not the Sheriff's Office, investigated the Rodney Smith fatality. Here is the link to the story on the CHP's conclusions: Web Link
a resident of another community
on Jul 12, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Unfortunately a person who has the courage to post a real name runs the risk of becoming the focus of personal attacks or becoming a distraction from the immediate issue. Sad but true, "Ben".
In bicycle/automobile collisions, not only does the cyclist always suffer greater harm, but contract law enforcement in Woodside and Portola Valley does have a history of adding insult to injury by favoring motorists in determining fault. As San Carlos Councilmember Matt Grocutt recently noted, none of the tragic bicyclist fatalities of the past decade in San Mateo County have resulted in vehicular manslaughter charges against the motorist involved.
Based on my inspection of the Sand Hill Road fatal accident site, the cyclist was struck well to the right of the shoulder stripe and was traveling parallel to the line. Did the CHP investigators rely on a self-serving account of the driver more than the observation of skid marks and other evidence at the scene? What?
In regards to Mr. Wilson's suggestions for a change in the vehicle code, "wacky" is a charitable description of the idea. It's not unreasonable to suggest that readers be reminded that by anyone who prints this stuff, that the practice is illegal and dangerous. Who knows, someone might start thinking that it's a bad idea for bicyclists to ride with traffic, or that horn honking is an adequate substitute for steering or braking as a response to a hazardous situation.
a resident of Menlo Park: South of Seminary/Vintage Oaks
on Jul 12, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Thanks for the info, Steve. I can understand why people who have seen the skid marks might be suspicious. Do you know if anyone is challenging the CHP's findings? I'm not even sure how that might be done. The DA's office, maybe?
Regarding the first sentence of your post, I'm not sure what to make of it. You seem to imply that I made a personal attack on Ms. Johnck, although I was merely challenging her for a rather severe and caustic (toxic?) response to someone else's expression of opinion. I believe that people can disagree, but still be respectful of the person who has expressed an idea in sincerity. And I also believe that cyclists don't need to be told that the law mandates that they ride with traffic. If they don't know that, they shouldn't be riding a bicycle. I give people more credit than you seem to think they should be given.
a resident of another community
on Jul 13, 2007 at 12:48 pm
If it hasn't been done already, someone needs to go out to the accident site and document the evidence there, including measuring and photographing skid marks and any gouges or scrapes. I am an expert traffic engineer, and in the personal injury lawsuits in which I have been involved, a private investigator working for the attorney representing the victim's heirs will document the site, particularly if the attorney is retained right away. If the evidence is not documented soon, it will disappear and all that will be left is the CHP collision report.
a resident of another community
on Jul 14, 2007 at 9:08 am
The accident site is on eastbound Sand Hill at the top of the first hill west of the I-280/Sand Hill interchange. There is an improvised shrine near the point of impact. Maybe "Ben" and Bob Shanteau should check it out. They may find the investigator's paint marks and a skid mark made by Mr. Smith's rear tire as he was struck by the motorist's car. The CHP's version of this terrible event seems highly implausible.
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It's that time once more, when your Peerless Prognosticator dons his thinking cap and provides you, the erudite hockey fan, with a look into the entry draft. We have not seen any of these fine gentlemen in action, but quite frankly, we don't think it matters. After reading and listening to the usual media suspects opine on such things over the years, we think our track record is just fine by comparison. So, as we eagerly await men in top hats and tuxes pulling Gary Bettman out of a tree stump to see if he sees his shadow to proclaim three more months of off-season, here are the only picks you need to get you off and running for another beer…
1 Tampa Bay
Steven Stamkos – C (Sarnia Sting): 61 games, 58-47-105, +18
Needs: Tampa had and continues to have goaltending issues. But in the long term, they look reasonably solid with Karri Ramo and Riku Helenius in the prospect pool. It is a club without much offensive depth on the parent club, once one gets past Lecavalier and Martin St. Louis, and its prospect pool does not look especially promising in that regard. They need some offensive punch.
Twice in franchise history the Lightning have held the first overall pick. In 1992, the Lighting selected Roman Hamrlik with their first ever draft pick. In 1998, the Lightning picked Vincent Lecavalier. This year, they will pick Stamkos. There has been no drama about this pick – no wonder over the who, no rumor about trades, nothing. His name is an anagram for "man stokes vets." Maybe he can lift Lecavalier, Martin St. Louis, and the rest of the Lightning out of the cellar.
2 Los Angeles
Drew Doughty – D (Guelph Storm): 58 games 13-37-50, -1
Needs: The Kings were 28th in goals allowed per game last year. It is a reflection of weak defense and goaltending. There are no franchise goalies expected to go at the top of this draft, but there are a number of defensemen with promise. That is the key need moving forward – for next season and looking further into the future.
The Kings have had two number-two picks in franchise history – Doug Smith in 1981 and Jimmy Carson in 1986. Both had decent careers (Carson had a 55-goal season with the Kings before being part of an answer to a trivia question – "who did the Kings give up for Wayne Gretzky?" -- Smith played in 535 games in his career).
Last year, Karl Alzner was described as the most "NHL-ready" of the defensemen in his class. His partner on the Canadian world juniors team might carry that label into this draft. Ottawa Senators coach Craig Hartsburg had Doughty on that juniors team and said of him, "He's been dominant at both ends of the rink. Offensively he's carried the puck with authority. He's been strong defensively, he's killed penalties, he's been outstanding." The Kings could use that sort of defenseman.
3 Atlanta
Zach Bogosian – D (Peterborough Petes): 11-50-61, +8
Needs: Well, they need a coach, but there aren't any who are draft eligible. They need defense. 29th in goals-allowed last year, a team with one defenseman on the plus side of the ledger (Niclas Havelid) and two worse than -20, little in the way of blue line prospects in their system.
Bogosian is described as a more physical player than Doughty, and this would fill a gap created when the club dealt Braydon Coburn to Philadelphia in 2007. In his own words, "I like to compete, that's my game, and some nights I might not always be on top, but I always compete." This pick bears watching. The Thrashers essentially passed on last year's draft with single picks only in the third, fourth, sixth, and seventh rounds. Will they move this pick for volume – to try to restock the club?
Atlanta has never had a third-overall pick, but they spent much of their early history (their first four years) with first or second overall picks. They netted: Patrik Stefan, Dany Heatley, Ilya Kovalchuk, and Kari Lehtonen. Stefan might be considered a bust (188 points in 455 NHL games, and he spent last year in Europe), but the other three are foundation players, even if Heatley is playing that role in Ottawa.
4 St. Louis
Luke Schenn – D (Kelowna Rockets): 7-21-28, +5
Needs: For years, St. Louis was that team that was solid enough to make the playoffs, but not so good as to win the prize. Their needs have that same feel to them – they appear reasonably solid as most positions in the prospect pool, but few players jump off the page. What that means is that they don't have one specific need, but they could stand improvement overall. This is a situation made for the "best player available" pick…or a trade.
Schenn is described alternately as a "defensive" or "shut down" defenseman. But there might be more there. A member of the Rockets management said of him, "…we really liked his passing…as a young guy he was just a great passer of the puck…we knew he was an excellent young guy who made very good decisions with the puck."
Only once have the Blues had the fourth overall pick. They selected Gene Carr with that pick in the 1971 entry draft. He played 14 games with the Blues before moving on to four other teams and 451 more NHL games.
5 NY Islanders
Alex Pietrangelo – D (Niagara IceDogs): 13-40-53, +29
Needs: Describing what the Islanders don't need would be a much shorter list. But this being a draft deep in defensemen at the top of the board, the Islanders could do worse than pick one here.
Pietrangelo is described as "smart," "poised," and a "puck-moving defenseman." The last of these can be descriptive, or code for "doesn't play to his size." Listed at 6'3", 206 pounds, the physical side of his game is characterized as "developing." But he had a big year and a fine playoff season (before illness – mononucleosis – knocked him out).
The Islanders have some experience with this slot. They picked Darius Kasparaitis at #5 in 1992, Eric Brewer in 1997, and Raffi Torres in 2000.
6 Columbus
Colin Wilson – C (Boston University): 37 games, 12-23-35, +12
Needs: A center. This is the first of two picks the Blue Jackets have in the first round (they have Colorado's #19 overall pick; they have three of the top 37 picks overall), and the possibility exists here that the Blue Jackets will move one of the first rounders for immediate help (fun fact: Columbus didn't have a center with as many as 35 points last year, and it's not like they have a lot past Derick Brassard in the prospect pool).
Reading about Wilson, one gets an image of a solid player (he should be; his father Carey played 13 seasons in the NHL). There might be forwards with more upside than Wilson (Nikita Filatov comes to mind), but Columbus needs to build a foundation – something that has been lacking in their eight-year history.
Columbus has had the sixth overall pick twice in their history, selecting Gilbert Brule in 2005 and Derick Brassard in 2006. Brule has 146 games of experience, but scored only one goal this past year (and that on October 31st) while spending 16 games (plus 13 playoff games) in Syracuse in the AHL.
7 Toronto
Cody Hodgson – C (Brampton Battalion): 68 games, 40-45-85, +15
Needs: A GM. No, seriously. The Globe and Mail reported last Thursday that Cliff Fletcher would hang on to the term "interim" general manager for "at least" one more year. What in heaven's name is in the water in Ontario?...LSD fizzies? The scenario, as that story points out, somehow leads to Brian Burke making his way to Toronto. In the meantime, the Leafs are doing…well, what exactly? Punting the season?
In the meantime, Hodgson is another one of those guys who looks like he will be a solid, but perhaps not spectacular NHLer. Given the shortage of pivots in the Maple Leaf system, they could do a lot worse (and might even try to, like drafting Cody Gifford).
Toronto has had two #7 selections since the draft was instituted -- Russ Courtnall in 1983, Luke Richardson in 1987 (would that be 1987 B.C., or does it just seem that way?)
8 Phoenix
Tyler Myers – D (Kelowna Rockets): 65 games, 6-13-19, -16
Needs: In the long term, the Coyotes will need to fill some holes on the blue line – they have two defensemen under contract after next year (Ed Jovanovski and Zbynek Michalek). They only have four forwards signed, but seem deeper up front in the prospect pool.
If one looks up the word "project" in the dictionary, young Mr. Myers' photo might appear. He is a converted forward who is 6'7." He's got some catching up to do in a game that seems to have been reengineered to benefit players of smaller stature. However, he is ranked highly on a number of boards (for example, Central Scouting has him as the #3 North American defenseman, ISS has him as the #6 defenseman, The Hockey News has him 5th).
Three times has Phoenix had the eighth overall pick (including its previous life in Winnipeg) -- Andrew McBain in 1983, Pat Eleniuk in 1986, Peter Mueller in 2006. Given Mueller's rookie season, perhaps they are getting better at this.
9 Nashville (from FLA)
Mikkel Boedker – LW (Kitchener): 29-43-73, +6
Needs: Forwards. Nashville has a young defense and a good prospect pool at that position. However, it is a team that has some difficulty scoring now and doesn't have as deep or rich a pool of forwards coming through its system.
"Good puck skills"…"quickness and breakaway speed"…"great foot-speed"…"soft hands"…"natural playmaking skills." Anyone in Nashville fit that description? The thing is…he bears a strange resemblance to Doogie Howser. We don't know if that's disqualifying or not, but we thought we'd point it out.
Nashville has never had a ninth overall pick in their short history, but they've had the sixth pick three times – Brian Finley in 1999, Scott Hartnell in 2000, and Scottie Upshall in 2001. Good thing the Preds aren't picking sixth…or else Boedker might need to test his affinity for cheese steaks a few years from now.
10 Vancouver
Josh Bailey – C (Windsor Spitfires): 67 games, 29-67-96, +30
Needs: Centers. Vancouver has one center under contract after the 2008-2009 season (Ryan Kesler), and their prospect pool is not deep at this position.
The Hockey News reported one scout as saying that Bailey would "probably max out as a 60-point guy." Well, Vancouver had one center last year with 76 points (Henrik Sedin)…the next one (Kesler) had 37. 60 would be an improvement.
Vancouver has had four picks at this slot in its history -- Garth Butcher in 1981, J.J. Daigneault in 1984, Brad Ference in 1997, and Luc Bourdon in 2005…all were defensemen.
11 Chicago
Colten Teubert – D (Regina Pats): 66 games, 7-16-23, -8
Needs: The Blackhawks have a decent group of young defensemen – Cam Barker, Brent Seabrook, Duncan Keith (all under 25), but there isn't much in the pipeline past that group.
Red Line Report's Kyle Woodlief said this about Teubert in his look at defensemen for USA Today…" Out of all the top defensemen this year, he's the one who scares and intimidates opposing forwards with a mean, nasty, consistently physical component. He's a huge bruiser who hits to hurt and makes forwards pay a dear price for wandering into the crease when he's on the ice." Pat Kane will breathe easier if this guy arrives.
Chicago has had three #11 overall picks since the amateur draft was instituted -- Wayne Davison in 1963, Dave Manson in 1985, and Pavel Vorobiev in 2000. Davison never played for the Hawks, Manson played in more than 1,100 NHL games (432 of them with Chicago), Vorobiev in 57 games before returning to Russia in 2006.
12 Anaheim (from EDM)
Kyle Beach – C (Everett Silvertips): 60 games, 27-33-60, -4
Needs: Anaheim is getting long in the tooth in a few positions, most notably at center and defense. They appear deeper among prospects on defense than they do at center.
A scout commenting in The Hockey News described Beach as a six-foot-three-inch Sean Avery. Woodlief describes him as an "abrasive agitator." Anaheim has a theme – "super size." For example, in the last three drafts only two of 19 players selected were under 6'0." And, the Ducks are famously rough around the edges. They're probably cheesed that Teubert is gone at this position. But Beach might do fine.
The Ducks have had one 12th overall pick in their history -- Alexei Smirnov in 2000. Please, don't thank me for pointing that out.
13 Buffalo
Luca Sbisa – D (Lethbridge Hurricanes): 62 games, 6-27-33, +21
Needs: Perhaps a goalie. Ryan Miller is entering his walk year, and there will be persistent wonderment over the possibility of his leaving for Detroit the following year as a UFA. They need to consider where Jhonas Enroth fits in the scheme of things. But Buffalo is an interesting mix. Only three players under contract for next year are over 30 (Jochen Hecht, Jaroslav Spacek, Toni Lydman). Goalie issues aside, they could opt for any position on the board.
Reading about this youngster, it seems scouts are as much impressed with his decision to come to North America to acclimate himself to that style of play than anything he did on the ice (he is a native of Switzerland). The director of Central Scouting called him "a smart player who moves the puck at the right time and carries the puck correctly." He seems a good fit with Buffalo's approach.
The Sabres have spent a lot of picks at this position in the past – Larry Playfair in 1978, Joel Savage in 1988, Phillippe Boucher in 1993, Drew Stafford in 2003, Marek Zagrapan in 2004.
14 Carolina
Colby Robak – D (Brandon Wheat Kings): 71 games, 6-24-30, -6
Needs: Carolina is in a bit of a mess. They have three defensemen under contract after this next season, none of them younger than 31; their prospect pool at this position is very thin.
Robak is a big guy (6'3", 194) who was described by a scout quoted in The Hockey News as being similar to Bret Hedican – another Hurricane (currently a UFA).
You have to go all the way back to 1982 – when the Hurricanes were the Hartford Whalers – to find a #14 overall pick…Paul Lawless. He had 239 games in his career with four teams. Carolina is hoping this works out better.
15 Nashville
Zach Boychuk – C (Lethbridge Hurricanes): 61 games, 33-39-72, +26
Needs: see above, ninth overall pick
Boychuk seems to be one of those guys who plays with the motor revved up. He reads like a Chris Bourque with more offensive upside.
Nashville has had one pick at this spot in their history -- Alexander Radulov in 2004.
16 Boston
Joe Colborne – LW (Camrose Kodiacs): 55 games, 33-57-90, +48
Needs: The Bruins aren't set at any one position for the foreseeable future, unless Tuukka Rask is their goalie of the future. They could use some help on the wings going forward.
Colborne is a big guy (6'5", 190). He is also described as needing to ramp up his intensity. He's off to the University of Denver next year – one of the finer NCAA programs, so he'll have a chance to develop the holes in his game. Work ethic might not be an issue, but it will be a question.
Mike Bloom in 1972, Clayton Pachal in 1976, Dwight Foster in 1977, Al Secord in 1978, Dmitri Kvartalnov in 1992. Bloom, Foster, and Secord played in a significant number of games, but generally with someone else.
17 Calgary
Mattias Tedenby – LW (HV-71): 23 games, 3-3-6, +5
Needs: This is not an especially old team requiring plug-ins, but it is not at all deep in skill, either. The Flames need to upgrade in that respect.
In looking at several opinions on Tedenby, the player he seems projected by most to become is a Martin St. Louis type player. He's certainly small enough (5'9", 165). Now, as to whether he can take the pounding or avoid it…
The Flames have one 17th overall pick in their history -- Chris Biotti in 1985. Please note that he was picked before the Flames selected Joe Nieuwendyk in that draft (27th). Biotti never played a game in the NHL.
18 Ottawa
Michael Del Zotto – D (Oshawa Generals): 64 games, 16-47-63, +7
Ottawa has been so talented for so long, it was bound to happen that the well would dry up. Their prospect pool is – these days – rather thin. They seem especially thin regarding defensemen in the pipeline.
Reading about Del Zotto, the player that came to mind was "Mike Green." He's described as a good puck mover and shooter – a "prototypical" offensive defenseman – but perhaps with some weaknesses to attend to in the defensive aspects of the game.
Ottawa has never had an 18th overall pick in its history. The closest they've been to this position is when they selected 16th in 2002 – Jakub Klepis. Be afraid….be very afraid, Senators fans.
19 Columbus (from COL)
Zac Dalpe – C (Penticton Vees): 46 games, 27-36-63
Needs: see above, seventh overall pick
Dalpe could fill out some (170 pounds on a six-foot frame), but the common thread in descriptions of him is that he has the skills, and he is among the fastest risers in the assorted draft rankings.
Columbus has never picked from this position. Usually, their first round picks are in the single digits overall…ok, not usually, in every draft they've had so far.
20 NY Rangers
Nikita Filatov – LW (Moscow CSKA):
Needs: Wingers. After Alexei Cherepanov, there seems to be a big drop off in the prospect pool. And, after next season the Rangers have four wingers on their roster under contract, none of whom look to be a scoring line player.
There is no doubt about Filatov's willingness, even eagerness to play in the NHL (``I want to play in the NHL right now and I'll do anything to make that happen as fast as possible…"), and the NHL's Director of European Scouting, noted a couple of weeks ago that ``If Nikita can guarantee that he will play in North America next year, I see no reason why he wouldn't be a top-five selection.'' The trouble is in that word, "guarantee," and that word could make him this year's Alexei Cherepanov, who dropped to 17th in last year's draft (scooped up by the Rangers), although Filatov's contract is up with his Russian squad. Frankly, it's difficult to see him dropping this far based on the lavish praise heaped on his game in scouting reports…but if anyone might drop this far, it would seem to be this player.
The Rangers have had three picks in this position since the debut of the amateur draft -- Cam Allison in 1963, Jack Egers in 1966, Steven Rice in 1989. Allison never played in an NHL game, Rice played only 11 games with the Rangers on route to a 329-game career with three clubs, and Egers played 14 games in the Capitals' 1974-1975 natural disaster of a season.
21 New Jersey
Chet Pickard – G (Tri-City Americans): 46-12-4, 2.32, .918, 2 shutouts
Needs: Yes, it's time. Martin Brodeur will be 37 years old when next season comes to a close, and the Devils farm system is littered with guys in a off-Broadway version of "Waiting for Marty (to retire, or maybe slow down)." Jeff Frazee, Jordan Parise, Josh Disher, Jason Smith, Matus Kostur, Ari Ahonen, Jean-Francois Damphousse, Scott Clemmensen, Chris Mason, Frederic Henry, Luciano Caravaggio, Scott Swanjord, and Judd Lambert are the goalies drafted by the Devils since Brodeur was picked #20 overall in 1990.
Pickard has some experience in replacing a highly-thought of goalie, albeit in miniature. He replaced Carey Price at Tri-City. And as for that, well, as reported at NHL.com…" All the media was talking about the Carey Price ghost. I never put pressure on myself. I knew I was a good goalie."
New Jersey has never selected 21st. But they have selected 20th on two occasions – Travis Zajac in 2004 and that Brodeur guy in 1990.
22 Edmonton (from ANA)
Tyler Cuma - D (Ottawa 67's): 59 games, 4-28-32, +4
Needs: The Oilers have stockpiled a fair amount of young talent. The parent roster is young, and they have players coming through the system that could step in over the next several years. They might be thinnest on the blue line.
The sum of the descriptions of Cuma suggest a solid, not flashy player, a good, all-around player. He seems to excel more at the offensive aspects of the game.
Only once has Edmonton selected in this spot, taking Marc-Antoine Poulliot in 2003.
23 Washington
John Carlson – D (Indiana – USHL): 53 games, 9-28-37
Needs: There aren't many teams with better or deeper prospect pools than the Capitals. The Caps can go a number of ways (although this is a team that tends toward the "best player available). The club has a long history of emphasizing defense and two-way play. Since the lockout, six of ten first or second round picks have been defensemen. But on the other hand, if there is one persistent weakness, it is at center. The team has one center under 35 on the parent roster under contract past next season (Nicklas Backstrom). Despite the numbers put up by Mathieu Perrault in Canadian junior (233 points in his last two seasons), there is no slam dunk second line center in the system.
OK, here's the deal. Bengt Gustafsson was and remains our favorite Cap of all time, the epitome of the two-way player who subordinated some of his offensive game to fit into the Caps' style of the time. The sentimental pick would be the Caps taking his son, Anton. Where did we miss that part where sentiment played a role in building a team? Anton has potential, but he is also a big unknown, not having yet played against elite competition. Carlson, while not addressing "need," is perhaps a longer term project for the blue line. One comparison he draws – from Bob McKenzie at TSN – is to Mike Komisarek. That sort of defenseman is in short supply in the Caps' system.
The Caps have had three picks at #23 in their history – Paul MacKinnon in 1978, Miika Elomo in 1995, and Simeon Varlamov in 2006.
24 Minnesota
Erik Karlsson – D (Frolunda-SWE): 38 games, 13-24-37
Needs: Only Brent Burns and Nick Schultz among under-30 defensemen are signed to the parent club after next season. The farm system looks light in defenseman prospects.
Karlsson will need to bulk up, or risk getting mauled in front of his own net. His skill set descriptions include the usual references to stick, skating, and passing ability.
Minnesota does not have a 24th overall pick in their history. The closest they've been to this spot is in 2003, when they selected Brent Burns 20th overall.
25 Montreal
Nicolas Deschamps – C (Chicoutimi Sagueneens): 70 games, 24-43-67
Needs: not much. Montreal is young and deep, both on the parent roster and in its farm system.
Deschamps led all rookies in the OMJHL in scoring. He seems, from descriptions of him, to be something of a late bloomer or late riser in the rankings, with the potential to be a fine all-around player.
Montreal has had two picks at this spot since the inception of the amateur draft – Terry French in 1971, and Alexander Perezhogin in 2001. French never played in the NHL and Perezhogin played 128 games in the league before signing to play in Russia last year.
26 Buffalo (from S.J.)
Jake Allen – G (St. John's Fog Devils): 9-12 3.14, .901, 2 shutouts
Needs: see above, 13th overall pick
Allen didn't have a great regular season (he was a rookie in the QMJHL), but had an excellent World Under-18 torunament. He is the youngest of the top-five goalies ranked by ISS; he might take the longest to develop. But the Sabres might be thinking down the road with respect to their goalie situation.
The Sabres have picked twice in this slot in their history – Mike Anderson in 1982 and Greg Brown in 1986
27 Philadelphia
Cody Goloubef – D (Wisconsin-NCAA): 40 games, 4-6-10
Needs: Philadelphia has one defenseman (two, if one counts Ryan Parent, who did not have a consistent role on the parent roster) under the age of 33 under contract past next year – Braydon Coburn. They have a number of prospects with some potential to draw an NHL paycheck, but there doesn't seem to be high-end potential there. They also lack a clear #1 goaltending prospect.
Goloubef finished his freshman year at Wisconsin with four goals – three of them were game winners. Hey, his name is GOAL-a-bef…he's got to be a good player. What comes out from reading about this youngster is that he is a solid two-way player whose offensive game might be hidden a bit under a bushel basket at Wisconsin.
Philadelphia has selected 27th overall twice in its history, picking Scott Melanby in 1984 and Jeff Woywitka in 2001.
28 Los Angeles (from DAL)
David Toews - LW (Shattuck-St. Mary's): 51 games, 44-56-100
Needs: see above, second overall pick
If there is a theme in this draft, it's "bloodlines." There seem to be a lot of candidates whose brothers, fathers, or grandfathers have come this way before. Toews is the brother of Jonathan, and he seems to suffer in the comparison. It doesn't appear he's as highly thought of as his brother, but that hasn't kept him from being ranked highly on some charts (ISS: 27, CSS: THN: 40).
The Kings have had two selections at this position in their history – Paul Holden in 1988 and Brandy Semchuk in 1990
29 Atlanta (from PIT)
Jake Gardiner – D (Minnetonka-HS): 21 games, 20-28-48
Needs: see above, third overall pick
Gardiner is a converted forward, and with that would appear to be the problem of his brains catching up with his skills. He is described, though, as one of the best skaters in the draft. But if there is an odd undercurrent here, it is that there are rumblings that the Thrashers could move goalie Kari Lehtonen. Could they package him and this pick and move up?
Atlanta has never picked from this position. The closest they've been is at #30, where they took Luke Sellars in 1999 and Jim Slater in 2002.
30 Detroit
Aaron Ness – D (Roseau): 31 games, 28-44-72
Needs: Whatever they are, Detroit seems to fill them. They bring back virtually everyone of consequence from last year's Stanley Cup champion, but after next year things get interesting. Henrik Zetterberg and Johan Franzen are UFAs. The interesting fact here is that with their last eight first round draft picks (going back to 1993), the Red Wings have taken defensemen.
Ness is smallish…ok, small (5'10", 162), but his coach said, "he sees the ice and moves the puck better than any player I've ever seen. He reminds me of Phil Housley."
There are lots of place out there that have worked very hard in assessing this talent, and it is such a benefit to hockey fans that such sources are available (for us to torture the information). The usual suspects like the Central Scouting rankings, ISS, Red Line Report, TSN, or The Hockey News year after year provide hockey fans with just about everything they could hope for in terms of pre-draft reviews and analysis. But there is also another crop of sources that do their own analysis or aggregate the data available…nhlentrydraft2008.com, mynhldraft.com, as well as the assorted mock drafts one can peruse at dcprosportsreport.com/NHLMocks.htm. Seek, and you shall find. It certainly is a golden age for the draft geeks out there.

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You will note that today's WNJ article bemoaning the drop in Dover Downs net gambling profits from last years' $4.7 million to a mere $13,000 heavily quotes DD CEO Dennis McGlynn talking about how badly his industry needs another State bail-out:
Denis McGlynn, president and CEO of Dover Downs Gaming and Entertainment and Dover Motorsports Inc., said the earnings drop, caused by an increase in competition and disproportionate tax rates, validates long-held concerns by casinos that the state has not kept up with a rapidly changing casinoindustry.
"I think the numbers validate the story we've been telling everyone basically, and most particularly those who do control our destiny," McGlynn said.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what next year is going to look like," he said.
The casino reported revenues of $197.2 million as of Dec. 31, down from $225.9 million in 2012. Expenses dropped from $215.6 million in 2012 to $195 million last year, according to the casino's earnings report.
The casino is carrying $47 million in debt in the form of a revolving line of credit, down from $58 million in 2012.Before we start shedding tears for Mr. McGlynn and his noble quest to keep blackjack dealers and security guards in their jobs if only the State of Delaware will come up with another bail-out, let's understand a couple of things:
First, Mr. McGlynn has personally become a millionaire several times over thanks to State largess. In 2011 his compensation from Dover Downs Casinos was $351,000; from Dover Motorsports was $285,600; and from Campus Crest Communities was $30,000. While his current earnings (and, one suspects, this list from Forbes was not complete) can't be easily determined, we do know that his compensation from Dover Motorsports jumped up from that $285,600 to $422,550 in 2012.
So while Mr. McGlynn is sounding his warnings about economic collapse, you have to realize that he's personally done incredibly well thanks to the State of Delaware limiting his competition inside our borders, subsidizing his business, and supporting his loans. He's not so much crying about the loss of a blackjack dealer's $50,000/year job, but about the dangers to his own lifestyle.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being successful . . . unless your success is continually underwritten by other people's tax money and you perennially walk around Dover holding a tin cup in your hand crying that you need more, more, more . . .
Oh, and Mr. McGlynn does spread the wealth to the politicians in the area whose job it is to keep that corporate welfare rolling in. Here's just 2012:
[Unfortunately for Dover Downs, backing Lincoln Willis last time around turned out to be a good bet gone bad. Wonder if he's supporting Trey Paradee this year?]
I can't find (yet) comparable earnings information on other people like Delaware Park LLC CEO Andrew Gentile, but you can make a safe bet that Mr. Gentile isn't personally hurting, either.
The reality is that the Delaware General Assembly bet the farm on casino gambling, and refused to acknowledge signs as far back as 2007 that there was now regional competition, and that you couldn't just sit there and wait for people to travel to Dover and throw their quarters into your slot machines.
So our legislators treated casino income as a more or less fixed part of the State budget and happily spent it all, every year, and counted on it in projections for the future. Then other States got casinos (including more modern casinos with more bells and whistles) and--BAM!--bloom off rose.
So now legislators and the Governor find themselves scrambling to find ways to throw more money at millionaire casino CEOs ostensibly to "save jobs," but really to avoid losing easy tax revenue that is going to diminish relentlessly over the next several years now matter what they do.
So while they claim to be struggling to find the money to fund Medicaid expansion, hitting State workers with the first raise Jack Markell has ever proposed (a whopping 1%), and plotting to borrow half a billion dollars to build new roads and bridges, our legislators will also be shoveling millions of dollars toward Dover Downs, Delaware Park, and Harrington Raceway.
Time to bite the bullet, ladies and gentlemen, and admit that your entire premise was wrong, and that we have to start over when thinking about long-term fiscal stability.
Yeah, that's going to happen.


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i want to ask some help about this ,
ill show the code first
this is the same as the recent post about inverting a string.
import java.io.*; public class Sample { private static BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { String invertedString, word; System.out.print("Enter a word : "); word = br.readLine( ); invertedString = invert(word); System.out.println("Inverted: " + invertedString); } private static String invert(String string) { String temp = ""; String inverted = ""; int loopCount; for (loopCount = string.length( ) -1; loopCount >= 0; loopCount--) temp = temp + string.charAt(loopCount); inverted = temp; return inverted; } }
the output for this program will be like this,
Enter a word : program
Inverted: margorp
this is the problem.. i'm having some hard time trying everything to get this output
Enter a word: program
Inverted: margorp
InvertedIntialCapital : Margrop
i want to extract the last character that will be keyed in the program,
ofcourse the last charcter will be the first one if it is inverted.
BUT i want it to be upperCased
please help me with my exercise
converting it to uppercase is easy, but the BIG problem is on extracting it.
extracting THE LAST character plus displaying it together with the rest that was keyed in(reversely)


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As a member of Carolyn Mullet's Dutch Wave tour in August 2016, I joined a simpatico group of international garden travelers with a special interest in the work of Piet Oudolf and many practitioners of the garden design movement he largely founded … the Dutch Wave, often called the New Perennial movement. The carexTours itinerary gave us an intense overview of Piet Oudolf's work and Dutch Wave design, as well as glimpses into work of several other major garden designers–including two gardens by one designer very atypical of the Dutch Wave, Noël van Mierlo, the subject of this post. Seeing the two van Mierlo gardens was a revelatory experience, making us think about what a garden is, and giving greater insight into the distinguishing characteristics of the Dutch Wave.
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I didn't know what to expect the morning we started out on our visit to two Noël van Mierlo gardens. My Dutch-American friend Carrie Preston, who has lived in The Netherlands for many years, had told me a bit about him, that his gardens has received several national awards … but coming after a visit to Piet Oudolf's very different Vlinderhof only the day before, I certainly didn't expect the architectural, highly choreographed gardens we were to see. Van Mierlo's stunning gardens are a dramatic break from the Dutch Wave style that has been flourishing in The Netherlands for the past two decades.
Why are van Mierlo's gardens so different? Dutch Wave gardens emulate the look of nature … rather, they take their inspiration from the look of nature and intensify that look. They are about display of perennials and grasses, and an intensely emotional response to those plants, about the biological entities, the plants themselves, in all their glorious variety and multivariate forms through all seasons. They seem to work on some primal emotional level. Trees, structure, stone, water are not necessary, or even representative of the Dutch Wave–the focus is on the herbaceous perennials and grasses–though they may be present, and important parts of, individual gardens.
Japanese Water Garden
Noël van Mierlo's Japanese water garden, in marked contrast, is about structure, texture, line, shape, about complexity (a complexity made to look simple), not about an emotional response to plants. It is a cool, meditative garden, a garden for musing. (It is also very much a continuation of the house, a series of outdoor rooms well suited to private enjoyment or social occasions.)
The garden is quiet, contemplative, observant of small details, almost opposite to the delight, exhilaration, and high-pitch of feelings often evoked by Dutch Wave plantings. It subtly juxtaposes natural and manmade morphologies to create a unified experience.
Architectural Garden
Van Mierlo conceives the garden as a series of rooms and frequently refers to its floor, walls, ceiling. When I asked him for names of designers he admires, he mentioned Lake Flato and Tom Kundig–both architects–architects known for designing structures that sit easily in a natural, often wild, landscape, and for artfully crafted structures. You see architecture in the impressive use of the huge wooden bollards that form the entrance portal, in the refined lines of the modernist, yet sensuous, tea house, in the carefully selected and positioned rocks used to anchor the garden in the landscape, in the sensitive selection of trees with great character (trees too are part of the architecture of this garden) …
…in the thick steel plates that gracefully bridge the pond, appearing to be suspended just above the water's surface (quite a structural engineering challenge), designed in collaboration with noted Dutch metal artist Xander Spronken …
… and in attention to appropriateness of materials and to the smallest details, as in this carefully crafted transition from gravel to lawn.
All through the design and construction process, he strives to find and use the finest craftsmen available for garden pavements, finishes, lighting–and planting.
Because this garden is a dramatic departure from plant-centric Dutch Wave gardens, it was a powerful reminder to those of us on Carolyn Mullet's Dutch Wave tour that gardens take many, and vastly different, forms.
So did carexTours add the van Mierlo gardens as a "palate cleanser," perhaps, served between courses of Dutch Wave gardens? I don't think so. Carolyn wanted to make us think.
Strangely, although it is certainly an architectural garden, full of complicated structural challenges, a garden difficult and costly to create, requiring heavy equipment, expensive materials, and precision in construction …
… it is a garden about ecology, far more so than most Dutch Wave gardens are … a garden that, in fact, creates habitat.
Opportunities for Novel Ecologies
Among its many other attributes, this is a garden for a connoisseur of plants and ecological design though, ironically, van Mierlo does not select the perennials in his gardens. That's not really such a strange concept if you compare garden making to other art forms. Think of him as the director of a theatrical performance or a film. He is the artist, the director, as well as the curator of expertise, and he has a talent for working with others. As with all garden challenges–architectural, structural, construction, Van Mierlo knows and uses experts and highly skilled craftsmen. In this case, his expert is an extremely talented plantsman, Ruurd van Donkelaar. (Van Mierlo does take a direct role in selection and placement of distinctive trees, the "walls" of the garden and the pillars holding up the sky, the ceiling of the garden.)
Look at the care van Donkelaar used in designing this water's edge habitat. The rocks, gravel and plants are composed to create a "natural" transition from the water to the land, with a finely graduated differentiation of novel habitats to cover the pond liner and create a natural-looking transition, over a distance of only about three feet, of plants selected for suitability to their positions in water or on the drier edges; note the attention to scale in the planting, with miniature plants growing even between the small pieces of gravel. The design is elegant, restrained, possibly more natural than natural (a "created natural").
Only compare this to the crude transition below, one I recently photographed elsewhere …
… which, I think, makes the artfulness of the van Mierlo garden clear.
The plantings demonstrate deep knowledge of ecology-based planting as well as plant sociology (plants' preferences for growing in large or small groups, solitary plants, and so on). Anyone familiar with the German habitat-influenced perennial movement will recognize such groupings as these, which consider both plant ecology and sociology: "solitary plants along the water's edge in moist gravel," "bog and pond plants," "plants for moist conditions in small groups," "solitary grasses and ferns," "backyard bulbs in small groups between groundcovers," "solitary plants under trees," and plants for use in various depths of water. (These are my rough translations of the Dutch labels on the planting plans.)
Some of the plants are so unusual (to me) that I misidentified them. What do you think the red-leafed plants in this photo are?
I thought I was seeing a new Heuchera with a ground cover of green Tiarella cordifolia. I was wrong. It's a Saxifrage (Saxifraga cortusifolia 'Rubrifolia'). And look at this miniature bit of nature between stones and a steel bridge plate. Viola, moss, baby ferns, seedling Saxifrages …
… these plants aren't just surviving, they are reproducing and creating habitat in a garden less than two years old.
The Garden Entrance
The entrance to the Japanese water garden is subtle and understated. We might call it an example of Wabi Sabi, appreciation for the beauty in the lowly and humble.
From the entry passage, used wooden bollards block the view into the garden, then gradually break apart into an abstracted series of verticals, giving glimpses in.
These solid, bulky forms (they are seven or eight feet tall) are given an elegance and visual interest by plantings of carex and low shrubs at ground level and red berried Euonymous europaea (Spindle tree) that catches the eye and carries it upward. A very Japanese characteristic–the display of subtle variations of color and texture across the worn surface of the wood, the play of light and shadow, is another Wabi Sabi touch.
From the other side, the Euonymous are even more colorful, and beautifully offset by a few low grasses.
Van Mierlo works to achieve a balance (he uses the word "unity") between the many different elements of garden composition …
… the floor of the garden (paving, water, ground covers, pathways, bridges, rocks, turf), the walls and furniture of the garden (structures, plants, seating, sculpture, trees), and the garden's roof (tree canopies and sky). This striving for unity of effect is visible, too, in his placement of such "added" elements as the client's sculpture–for example, this mysterious piece, seen above and more closely below …
… the black figure has been positioned before the water, in an emotionally meaningful context of grasses and shrubs that suggest a figure in hiding, waiting, musing …
… and so too, with this grouping of small tree trunks sloping in the shade, van Mierlo captures the eye with a subtle effect achieved as part of many elements in balance. Walking the garden is a richly sensory experience. Note (below) how gracefully the garden moves from a naturalistic path to a more formal passageway, which is necessary to accommodate space limitations at the border of the residential property …
… bringing the garden visitor around to this lawn, and then the house and its outside entertainment areas.
Even on the utility, or entertainment, side of the garden, artful plantings and simple appointments continue the contemplative atmosphere.
The Japanese water garden is very much a journey. Movement from the entrance is choreographed by landscape and structural elements to carry the visitor into the garden, across the bridge of steel plates to the tea house, then around the far side of the pond on a simple path embellished by ecological plantings, around the back of the property, onto the lawn and entertainment precinct of the house …
… that journey can continue across the pond again, with resting places in the tea house, and around the lawn. It is a compact journey, but it offers compelling transitions in mood.
To see a video showing how the garden was built, click here.
The other garden we visited, the Stream garden, contains many of the same elements, and it too uses water and rock as principal elements of composition.
The Stream Garden
The other van Mierlo garden we saw was newly constructed and very recently planted. The Stream garden is located in front of the owner's house in the polders (low land rescued from the sea), and it is surrounded, at a distance, by high dykes. It appeared to be a difficult site for a garden, offering little of interest.
Since such land is intrinsically lacking in interest, though it does has its own sense of place, van Mierlo's client specifically requested a landscape that would bring him to another place …
… one that reminded him of his many summers walking rocky streams in the mountains of Austria. When questioned about that, the client said, "Have you seen Lord of the Rings?" That was enough of a clue.
This is largely a linear garden built along a very natural-looking artificial stream, with wider areas encompassing the residence and associated buildings and a pond at one end, and a play area outside a terminus marked by great wooden bollards, at the far end. The trees used here are, like those in the Japanese water garden, selected for unique form and character.
Stone, which is not normally present in The Netherlands, is a prominent feature in both the Japanese water garden and the Stream garden, but more so here, and its artful use is an essential element in the success of this garden. It is used to …
… create sense of place in a site that is essentially a blank canvas. But the stone does more. It makes the gardens "belong" in the landscape by virtue of its sheer physicality. Stones are selected with great care for shape, for how well they work in groups, for color, texture, size. And the stone helps to unify all the elements of the garden floor–gravel, wood, plants, paths, water.
Stone adds an element of mystery too, a primal sense of presence, much as we experience in ancient sites such as Stonehenge, or at many lesser ancient sites.
They also suggest (as above) the natural geologic processes of nature (here an artful illusion), processes that work over millennia, and thus introduce a sense of the immense time scales of geologic processes (hints of Lord of the Rings here?). Strewn across the landscape, they suggest they might have had a glacial origin. It's all sleight of hand, of course, but a very effective magic show. The rough, worn surface of the wooden walkway continues the color of the stone in an alternative material, an organic material, that again suggests the concept of Wabi Sabi.
The stonescaping, and the intentional irregularity of the wooden walkway, create a strong sense of place, which will "mature" as the rocks and wood age in place.
The log wall (above) will age to a color that approximates the grey of the stone and of the three vertical wooden bollards. This wall is essential; on the other side, is an active marina, operated by the owner of the garden.
A line of wooden bollards, a common sight along waterfronts in The Netherlands, demarks the far end of the garden, separating a children's play area from the garden proper. Even here van Mierlo uses mounded sand, rock, and grass to suggest a feeling of seaside play.
One of our tour members couldn't resist this swing.
Van Mierlo says his gardens are about making connections. Just as his design approach is one of collaboration, a bringing together of parts, making many creative talents work in unison for a single goal, so too he aims for all the parts of the garden–stones, trees, structures, paving, water, plants–to achieve a unity of effect and feeling. I think he certainly achieves that end. These are extraordinary gardens.
* Photographs 1, 2, 10, 27 and 28 of the Japanese water garden were provided by Noël van Mierlo.


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Custom officials seized 638 pieces of illegal elephant ivory estimated to be worth $1.2 million at Kenya's main port, evidence of what wildlife officials described Wednesday as a growing threat to East Africa's elephants.
The ivory was in a container destined for Indonesia and was discovered late Tuesday, said Gitau Gitau, the Kenya Revenue Authority officer in charge of the port. Gitau said the tusks were from Tanzania. Documents said the container was carrying slabs of decorative stones,
The seizure comes about a week after 12 elephants were killed in a Kenyan park and their tusks chopped off.
Elephant poaching is on the rise across Africa because of increased demand from Asia — particularly from China — for ivory trinkets. Poor African villagers can earn vast sums for killing an elephant and taking its tusks.
Kenyan officials became suspicious of the container because shipping documents used similar descriptions and details as a shipping container full of ivory seized in Hong Kong earlier this month. That seizure, the third big seizure of ivory in three months, found more than a ton of elephant tusks worth $1.4 million. Customs officers seized 779 pieces of ivory weighing 1,323 kilograms (2,916 pounds).
Kenya Wildlife Officials said Wednesday that Kenya last year lost 384 elephants and 19 rhinos to poaching compared with 289 elephants and 29 rhinos poached in year 2011. The Kenya Wildlife Service arrested 1,949 poaching suspects last year.
"There has been a gradual escalation in elephant and rhino poaching since 2005 ... influenced by escalation in the black market prices," said Kenya Wildlife Service spokesman Paul Mbugua.


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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona State University student who passed out and was left in a wheelchair in a hospital lobby with a Post-it note to tell doctors that he had participated in a drinking competition apparently put back about 20 shots of tequila.
Police are considering citing the student for underage drinking in what is the latest alcohol-related incident to involve ASU students in recent months.
The 19-year-old student was found early Saturday in the emergency room lobby of St. Luke's Hospital, according to Tempe police spokesman Sgt. Michael Pooley. A sticky note on the student's body gave his name and said he'd been drinking and needed help. Hospital staff noticed the student and helped him.
The student had passed out and started shaking and turning blue before the student's fraternity brothers dropped him at the hospital, police said. The fraternity brothers initially tried taking the victim to one of their homes because they were afraid of getting into trouble.
Pooley said the student consumed about 20 shots of tequila and had a blood-alcohol level of 0.47 percent, nearly six times the legal limit for driving. The student, who has not been identified, has been released from the hospital.
The student told police that he and his friends belonged to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. The drinking competition was not an official fraternity-sponsored event and involved a few friends, police said.
The case remained under investigation Tuesday, but police said it was not likely that the friends would face any criminal charges.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon drew headlines last year when another of its members, Jack Culolias, drowned in the Salt River. The 19-year-old was last seen Nov. 30 after being kicked out of a Tempe bar during a fraternity party and was suspected of being drunk. His blood-alcohol level was 0.28 percent, according to an autopsy.
"It's not just this fraternity. We've had a lot of issues with fraternities this year," Pooley said.
Police said one of the reasons is this marks the first year after ASU closed all on-campus Greek housing. The move pushed fraternities and sororities into the city.
In another case, five people were arrested just weeks ago at a fraternity brawl that involved baseball bats and gunfire. Surveillance cameras captured much of that incident, which was stemmed from a fight over a woman.
In March, two teenage girls were hospitalized for burns after police say a 21-year-old student threw a bottle of alcohol into an open fire, causing an explosion. That student has pleaded not guilty to aggravated assault charges.


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A remarkable phrase shows up a number of times in the Book of Mormon. It involves "looking forward" with an "eye of faith" to a desired result in the future. The idea is that if there is something that you sincerely desire, you should use your inner "eye," or your imagination, and picture yourself as already being there or having what you want. Through your faith that it is possible, you can begin to see yourself as having already reached your goal.
In the book of Alma 5:15-16, Alma preaches to the people about the goal of being received into heaven when their life on Earth is over. In order to direct them toward that goal, he asks them if they can imagine how things will be at that future time when they finally get there. As they "look forward with an eye of faith," what kind of outcome do they see? He asks:
15 Do ye exercise faith in the redemption of him who created you? Do you look forward with an eye of faith, and view this mortal body raised in immortality … to stand before God …?
16 I say unto you, can you imagine to yourselves that ye hear the voice of the Lord, saying unto you, in that day: Come unto me ye blessed, for behold, your works have been the works of righteousness upon the face of the earth?
What Alma is trying to have his audience do is to visualize their own future in minute detail. They are to imagine being resurrected and raised to stand before God. They are to imagine themselves hearing the approving voice of the Lord accepting them into heaven — reaching their ultimate goal. He suggests that if they try to visualize this scene and what they envision is only negative, then perhaps they need to find that balance in their lives so that the way they are living is in alignment with a positive outcome and then exercise their faith so that they are now headed in this more desirable direction.


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Etta James' voice could melt your heart ("At Last"), set it racing ("Wallflower," aka "Roll With Me Henry") – and cut straight through to the soul, on the fiery wings of an otherworldly blues growl ("Something's Got a Hold on Me").
But most of all, Etta James' versatile voice – a magnificent vehicle of rhythm and blues, soul, jazz and pop – proved the vulnerable, yet indomitable cry of a survivor able to musically channel the demons that threatened to silence her. James died Friday, her legend intact, at age 73.
James, whose raw, powerful voice matched her at-times bold fashion sense, never rose to superstardom, her talent and output overshadowed by the rock- and Motown-dominated 1960s and clouded by her own drug haze. Still, echoes of her voice could be heard in singers from Diana Ross to Janis Joplin, and later, in performers from Beyonce to Amy Winehouse.
Fellow musicians knew the woman who demanded we "Tell Mama," as one of the founding mothers of rock and modern R&B. The Rolling Stones, who perhaps owe the greatest debt of any major rock act to Chess Records, the label that hosted James and many other blues greats record, enlisted her to open for them in the late 1970s. She got elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, presaging a comeback that included Grammy awards and recognition that too often eluded her during the prime of her half-century career.
Beyonce played James on the big screen in 2008's "Cadillac Records," and brought her signature song to a new audience – a generation that helped make James' death a Twitter trending topic Friday.
"When she effortlessly opened her mouth, you could hear her pain and triumph," Beyonce wrote in a tribute on her website. "Her deeply emotional way of delivering a song told her story with no filter."
But James harbored enough pride to bristle when the younger star sang "At Last" at the inaugural ball in 2009, as President Obama danced with First Lady Michelle Obama.
Beyonce did a fine job – but she could never match Etta James.
She would never be an Ella or an Aretha – but she was Etta, and that was enough to earn James her due, at last.
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Tesla stock charges higherNovember 5, 2012: 1:11 PM ET
It's been a good couple of days for Elon Musk and his electric car company Tesla. Last week, Automobile Magazine named the company's Model S as its "car of the year." On Monday morning, Tesla followed up that bit of good news with financial results that pleased Wall Street.
Sure, Tesla (TSLA) is still losing money. And it actually posted a loss that was a bit larger than what analysts were expecting. But Tesla's sales topped forecasts and investors were happy with the company's guidance. Shares rose more than 8% as a result.
Tesla's stock has been on a wild rise this year. Shares are lagging the performance of General Motors (GM) and the rest of the world's largest automakers, which all have electric cars as well as hybrids to cater to the energy-conscious consumer.
Toyota (TM), for example, reported strong earnings Monday morning, following similarly good numbers from Ford (F) and GM last week. It may be tough for Tesla to compete with the giants from Detroit and Japan.>
It's also important to note that Tesla did hurdle a low bar Monday. The company issued a sales warning back in September and said that production of the Model S was slower than what Wall Street wanted to hear. Unsurprisingly then, traders on StockTwits are still divided about the long-term prospects for Tesla.
harryfend: @bigbuddha $TSLA no profits for long time looks like an $AMZN of hyped cars. #fail
greenchipjeff: Positive Q3 for $TSLA must really be frustrating for electric car doubters: http://stks.co/cDa8
It may be a stretch to call Tesla a failure. And any company could do a lot worse than being the Amazon (AMZN) of anything. But I get the point. Both Amazon and Tesla look richly valued and are trading more on future potential as opposed to strong short-term profits.
At the same time, it may also be unfair to say that Tesla's results were completely positive. Tesla is still losing money. And while sales topped forecasts, they were still lower than a year ago.
Related: Year of the electric car blows a fuse
Investors seem encouraged that Tesla may be able to start ramping up production again. But even fans of Musk admit that investors may be getting ahead of themselves until the company can prove it's able to produce more vehicles.
slangwise: Tesla shares are up 2% ahead of the open. Loss widens but Elon & Co. say deliveries are ahead of schedule: http://t.co/tsjfOLmz $TSLA
MissmoT: $TSLA I really hope Tesla succeeds and Musk becomes the next Rockefeller/Carnegie. How the stock is up tho is crazy. More cars please.
Tesla wasn't the only "clean" energy that was doing well Monday though. And at least one trader thinks that the rally in Tesla as well as First Solar (FSLR) may be Wall Street's way of predicting the outcome of Tuesday's presidential election.
BaselineAce: Mr. Market seems to be expecting an Obama reelection today: $TSLA $FSLR
I don't know if I'd go that far yet. But it does seem safe to assume that alternative energy stocks would get a bounce Wednesday if Obama is re-elected.


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7 Assumptions Beer Commercials Make About The Average Guy
Beer manufacturers know nothing about their customers. Perhaps ad agencies are to blame. Whoever makes the decisions on beer commercials must be drunk. Not the fun kind of drunk, the "do dumb things that seem smart" kind of drunk that often lead to bad decisions like drunk driving or engagements.
The typical beer commercial assumes all men are morons that respond only to humor and love nothing more than cans that visually tell us when our beer is cold enough to drink (because tasting it or just holding the can isn't a good enough indicator). Here are seven assumptions beer companies make about the average guy.
Men Mock Each Other For Beer Choices
We hang out with friends in bars. We all drink different things. Drink choices and beer make up about 1/10 of the conversation while out drinking with friends. We've never rag on another guy for his beer of choice. Especially if we're buying the round. The cheaper and crappier the better. We insist!
Also, this whole idea of questioning manhood doesn't happen in regard to beer. We call a guy out for being less than manly when they blow it with a woman or, perhaps, scream like a child on a roller coaster. Not because they don't drink Miller Lite. In fact, we'd let him drink anything he wanted to forget whatever public humiliation he is getting crap about.
Men Buy Beer Because Of Gimmicks
Cold activated cans. Wide mouth tops. Beer bottles that will also manage a 401K and pitch in around the house. (Patent pending on that last idea.) Beer makers think it's all the bells and whistles that make men buy beer. It's usually only two things: taste and price. Price when a guy is broke and has to lower his standards. Once he starts making a little extra cash he buys beer that he actually enjoys drinking. No man has ever turned down a cold beer because it wasn't a Vortex bottle. "Is this a regular bottle? What the hell are you trying to prove Mike?!? If you weren't my father I'd break this ice cold bottle over your thick skull. How cold is it? Hang on let me check the indicator." Also, what the hell is "super cold." There is cold and there is frozen. It's one or the other.
Men Will Do Anything For Free Beer
In the world of beer commercials, the product is often some type of hot commodity that can't be found in basically any beer or liquor store. Beer is hard to come by in the land of suds and barley, therefore, men will do anything ANYTHING to get their hands on just one bottle. They'll do things like get fired or even (GASP!) donate to charity.
"We'll I'd love to help the homeless and those in need but unless I get some type of beer reward they are all just going to have to freeze their cans off this winter."
Gorgeous Women Surround Men All Day
Where there is beer, there are men. Where there are men, there are absurdly good looking women. By that logic, every man should just run and buy a six pack right now and just hang out on the corner with it until a couple hot women walk by. Of course, he'd then do something asinine, but let's save that for the next entry. Back to the gorgeous women in beer commercials. These girls exist, of course, but they don't hang out in large groups at the neighborhood bar. Look at the women in this commercial, which was probably filmed in our god damn dreams.
Where is this bar? Take us their right now. We'll drive. If those women are hanging out and they are getting hit on by men in skirts we've hit the jackpot. Speaking of the skirt, on to the subject of the mental capacity of men.
Men Watch Sports In Groups Of 20 Or More
We've all got friends. Occasionally we'll get together to watch a game at each others house. Maybe even at a sports bar. It happens once or twice a season. Beer commercials make it seem like every weekend is a catered house party with people crawling all over the living room. Men and women running all around in team gear and pets and children scattered about from kickoff until the end of the Sunday night game. It's like a Dickens novel set around the 49ers versus Packers game. More often than not, men watch games alone, on their couch, while texting, Twittering and Facebook friends who are also watching the game at their own house. Makes for kind of boring commercial though.
Funny Commercials Will Make Us Buy Beer
"This beer tastes like the anus of a geriatric baboon dipped in battery acid. I'm going to keep buying it and drinking it because hot-damn they make some funny commercials." Funny commercials, hot women, gimmicky cans and making us look like idiots isn't going to sell more beer. Men drink the beer that they drink because they have personal preferences and tastes.
Men Are Essentially Apes In Clothing
DUUUUHHHHHHBEERSPORTSGIRLSUMMMMMMFOODBEEER. We don't say or do much, according to beer makers, but when we do it's usually something stupid. Wait for it. Wait for it. Any moment. ROCK! Hahahaha. He almost killed that guy. Let's laugh about it over a beer.


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The inaugural Healthcare IT Marketing and PR Conference concluded with tears of gratitude, many tweets of thanks and too many takeaways to list here. (I suggest you check out the #HITMC tweet stream before it disappears, or watch the recorded sessions, which will soon be available via the conference website.) I will take a moment to highlight several marketing resources and tools that I heard about from attendees and speakers – services and solutions actual HIT marketing professionals rely on to more easily create engaging campaigns that connect with prospects and customers on a Human2Human level.
Don't know who Matt Cutts is? Neither did I until I attended Kristine Schachinger's session on the realities and myths of SEO. Cutts is the man at Google who can make or break a website's Google rankings. Officially, he is head of Google's webspam team. No matter how you refer to him, he's certainly worth paying attention to, especially if SEO is your thing. The folks behind ShortCutts.com provide easy to understand interpretations of Cutts's videos, which he produces prolifically to help "struggling site owners understand their site in search."
Smartsheets seem to be about helping users better manage workflows via online tools that allow you to "assign tasks, attach files, share sheets, view timelines, set alerts, create rollups and go mobile." It features specific marketing templates for event marketing, campaign tracking and product launches. I'm not quite sure how it works, only that it came highly recommended from the HITMC community. I also found this article from my local paper on the way Northeast Georgia Medical Center's paramedics and cardiologists have used Smartsheets to improve cardiac care.
Whiteboard Animated Videos from JillAddison.com
One attendee recommended Jill Addison as her go to source for high quality yet cost-effective animated whiteboard videos.
Abukai provides a free service that lets you snap photos of your receipts with your phone, and then automatically dump them into an expense report – perfect for healthcare IT marketers on the go.
Do you have any idea how laborious it is to transcribe a phone interview? It's extremely time consuming, and can often cost big bucks to outsource. Imagine my pleasant surprise when someone mentioned Rev.com, which provides transcription services at $1 a minute. That is incredibly inexpensive, and worth its weight in gold if you're in a time crunch.
The Health IT Marketing and PR Community on LinkedIn
"A community of health IT marketing and healthcare IT PR professionals. First started after the inaugural Health IT Marketing and PR Conference as a place to collaborate with colleagues across the health IT marketing & PR community, but welcome to anyone interesting in healthcare IT marketing and PR." This should serve as a great resource, and I've already submitted a discussion around a question I didn't get a chance to ask panelists from Agency Ten22.


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I would also agree that many of us have already been effectively hydrating our dough for some time now by doing an extended fermentation. As you mentioned, this gives time for the enzymes to do their job, making the dough more fluid, extensible, etc. We just weren't calling it that per se. Whether using a long (modified) autolyse or an overall long fermentation, the end result is the same. That is we can effectively lower the hydration and achieve a similar working higher hydrated dough.
Let me take it one step further & break it down as it relates to the traditional Italian way using a "biga naturale". The magic number seems to be 20% biga & 9-12 hour fermentation.
so in exploring this extended autolyse/flour hydration phase, would the starter be added before or after? bill
Thanks for explaining that process Matt. Really great information. Is the composition of a madre more liquid or solid? Or how does a madre differ from a standard starter?John
Bill - If you are doing a modified autolyse in the breadmaking (Suas) sense, a portion of the final dough flour and water would be combined and hydrated for 8-10 hours, and then the final dough would be mixed with starter, salt and yeast. In Matt's description, 20% of the final dough is hydrated along with the starter. This is closer to creating a 20% levain (as in Tartine: flour, water, and one tablespoon of starter are hydrated overnight and then incorporated in the final dough). Maybe Matt can explain in further detail.John
thanks for explaining this Matt and John. The Biga Naturale sounds a lot like TxCraig's UPN formula preferment. Unless you're talking about the biga containing all of the water for the whole dough? bill
Exactly Chau. Suas says that the presence of salt and yeast can inhibit the autolyse process, but when your fermentation hours extends into the teens and twenties I fully believe it is achieving the same result. It would be interesting to hear Tom Lehmann's thoughts on this.
The madre is your starter & can be liquid or solid. Generally speaking, the madre is kept in a more solid state (biga) by the italians & a more liquid state (poolish) by the french. The difference is flavor. Italians prefer a much more mild flavor than the french. The presence of any sourness in a biga is considered a mishandling by italian bakers, where as the french find a sour/tangy starter favorable. Matt
Hi Bill,Similar, but not the same. Craig's formula encompasses a pate fermentee as a replacement for old dough. The big difference between the two is that pate fermentee/old dough contains salt & as a result has a lifespan of 48 hours at most if refrigerated.Matt
John, I definitely agree. im no tom lehmann, but the dough I most often use is a 20 hour room temp, or 1 week in the fridge fermentation using tiny amounts of yeast. I have done a bunch of tests over the years using a 20min-2hour autolyse with the salt and yeast, or without the salt and yeast, and for these very low yeast doughs I can't tell any difference between the two. P.S I know someone who paid Tom to do a consult, and at least back then he wasn't recommending the use of an autolyse.
Matt, the fact that a biga and poolish differ in consistency is not the sole reason they differ in taste. In fact, if we were to just consider the consistency, and nothing else, one might reasonably expect the more sour note to be delivered by the thicker consistency of the biga.
The non-old dough version called for 0.1% salt in the preferment to control the enzyme activity. I think if I was to work more on this, I would cut out the salt and shorten the preferment time to somewhere in a 12-18 hour range.CL
CT,the more you complicate things the more you frustrate yourself. KISS is the way to go. I have perfect hydration, fermentation, color and longevity. Do Not stress the dough or your mind. ENJOY!
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COLUMBUS – Getting the pitch ready for a match during a Midwestern winter might seem like a daunting task. But for the Columbus Crew, it's business as usual.
For the third straight year and fourth time in the past decade, Crew Stadium will host a mid-winter match when the home side faces Real Salt Lake on Tuesday in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal.
"It's nothing really new, although you expect the unexpected," director of stadium grounds Brett Tanner said. "It's Columbus and the weather is always changing."
Temperatures that peaked in the teens last week skyrocketed to more than 60 degrees Thursday. Several weather services are predicting a more typical high of 31 degrees on Tuesday.
No snow is predicted and the remnants of constant snowfall from the past two months have all melted away in Crew Stadium.
Tanner said the field still has some frozen spots beneath the surface but is playable, and both teams may train there Sunday. If not, the fields at the Obetz practice facility are ready as well.
As to how the Crew Stadium grass will play Tuesday, "It will probably be bumpy," Tanner said.
"I want it to be the best it can but we have to take a step back and make sure it's safe first and not over-manage it because we have the whole summer ahead of us," he added. "(The players) will probably say it's bumpy, (but) the field should be thawed enough to wear studs."
Tanner and grounds staff members Ray White and Ben Jackson were honored last month with the 2010 SportsTurf Professional Soccer Field of the Year award by the SportsTurf Managers Association.
"I wish I could do more to make it better now," Tanner said. "We're doing the best with what we've got."
He and vice president of operations Scott DeBolt decided it was best not to tarp the field this winter because removal of a heavy snow might have damaged the covers.
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The Crew also hosted Mexican side Toluca in a CCL quarterfinal last March. There were 20 inches of snow on the ground a week prior, but it was gone by the time the teams played to 2-2 tie in 50-degree temperatures.
DeBolt said the stadium is ready for most anything – the restrooms are heated and the water pipes have been tested.
"My biggest concern is some sort of ice storm," he said. "With the temperatures we're having now and through the weekend even if we get a dusting of snow a lot of it is going to melt on impact."


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In the interest of producing a high-quality test framework for the W3C Widgets Family of specifications, an informal test-writing workshop is being held in Düsseldorf at the end of September.
The meeting is open to everyone but you should register to make organisation smooth.
This is not an official meeting of the WebApps WG, but simply done in order to help further widgets interoperability. There will furthermore be a Mobile Monday Düsseldorf on the evening of the 21st.
Monday September 21st
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- 11:00 Coffee break
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